Yearly Archive for 2011

: 2011

Fans of Ryan Gosling (Ryan who?) are up in arms. They want People magazine to know actor Bradley Cooper is not sexier than their favorite pretty boy turned action star.

Gosling fans are protesting Cooper being knighted as sexiest man alive with a petition to People, a picket line outside the magazine’s office and some supportive words from two-time-sexiest-man George Clooney.

“[Gosling] really wants it,” Clooney said. “The whole time we were on the set of ‘[Ides of March]’he was like, ‘How did you pull that off?'”

All the cold and possibly wet people who plan to camp out in front of Seattle-area Best Buys this Thanksgiving will get to pass the time with Harry Potter.

Best Buys in Bellevue, Tukwilla, Tacoma Puyallup, Silverdale and Bellingham will show “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” starting at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. The store opens at midnight for its annual Black Friday sale.

The big-screen movie screening — just like the line of cold shoppers — will be outside in the parking lot.

Our buddies to the North are getting dangerously enviable when it comes to currency. A newly-introduced $100 bill made out of plastic can’t be ripped or counterfeited thanks to holographic security features.

Even better: The $100 bill features the distinguished-looking Sir Robert Borden, a former Canadian prime minister. Canada will debut plastic $50, $20, $10 and $5 bills over the next few years.

So, maybe Courtney Love isn’t Dave Grohl’s biggest fan — that’s nothing new. At a Sao Paulo show last weekend, Love took off her shirt, stormed off stage and then encouraged her fans to say Grohl’s post-Nirvana band is “gay.”

Needless to say, it was a pretty eventful concert.

Love, who was married to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain until his suicide in 1994, has long had a tumultuous relationship with Grohl regarding the band’s financial legacy.

“I don’t care what you listen to at home, but if a guy takes money off my kid’s table, f**k him,” Love said when she returned to stage. (She walked off earlier after an audience member held up a photo of Cobain.)

Sometimes pilots get stuck in restrooms. Sometimes passengers with accents try to get them out by beating their fists on the cockpit door. Sometimes terror scares happen. Case in point, courtesy of the New York Post:

A pilot who accidentally locked himself in the bathroom of his LaGuardia-bound plane caused a terror scare last night when a helpful passenger with an accent tried to come to his rescue by banging on the cockpit door for help.

Dorli Rainey, the 84-year-old woman who was pepper sprayed by Seattle police earlier this week, told TV personality Keith Olbermann that she didn’t start the evening looking to become the face of Occupy Seattle.

“I was on my way to one of these boring transportation meetings,” she said.

Rainey got off her bus near Westlake Park Tuesday evening and saw protesters rallying near the Nordstrom store. A longtime activist, Rainey stopped to lend her support — and ended up staring in a widely-circulated photo by seattlepi.com’s Joshua Trujillo.

We reported yesterday that Seattle was apparently under siege by UFOs Tuesday night, but we didn’t have video at that time.

That’s changed. The lights seen glowing in the sky over Seattle have surfaced on YouTube with this description: “UFOs over Seattle, Washington around 8:30PM local time on 11/15/2011. Totally wild sight. Sure there is some practical explanation. Wish the video was better but it’s cell phone, of course. First “UFO” sighting so pretty fun.”